Maryland Gov. Wes Moore calls special session to elect new House speaker
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore has called for a special session next week to pick a replacement for outgoing House Speaker Adrienne Jones. Source link
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Customer experience tech startup Toku files preliminary prospectus for Catalist IPO
It will use the proceeds to fund R&D, market expansion and to improve its financial position Technology startup Toku on Wednesday (Dec 10) lodged a preliminary prospectus for a listing on…
Ever Glory to offer 2 million new shares at S$0.64 each ahead of proposed transfer to mainboard
It will raise around S$1.2 million in net proceeds if the offer is fully subscribed As part of its proposed transfer to the Singapore Exchange (SGX) mainboard, Catalist-listed engineering…
Temasek, top funds bid in Swiggy’s US$1.1 billion share sale
The fundraising underscores the Indian e-commerce market’s rapid expansion amid surging demand Global investors, including Temasek Holdings and Capital Group, are offering to buy shares in…
MPACT subsidiary sells Festival Walk Tower for close to HK$2 billion
The manager of Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust (MPACT) announced on Wednesday (Dec 10) that its subsidiary – Festival Walk – will sell Festival Walk Tower for nearly HK$2 billion…
KISS and Company at the ‘All-American’ Kennedy Center Honors
If Trump’s goal is to create a Kennedy Center for the people, then this year’s Honors ceremony seemed entirely designed to vindicate their tastes. Source link
The Effort to Tame Tech Is Bound to Fail
What Tristan Harris gets wrong. Source link
Mrs. Shakespeare, Credit Hog
The literal-minded Hamnet abandons cultural outreach. Source link
ByteDance, Alibaba keen to order Nvidia H200 chips after Trump green light: sources
The chip’s ability to train AI models is currently unmatched by domestic equivalents [BEIJING/SINGAPORE] ByteDance and Alibaba have asked Nvidia about buying its powerful H200 AI chip…
HSBC’s senior bankers hid behind co-head roles, CEO Georges Elhedery says
Since taking charge, he has nearly halved the size of the bank’s operating committee HSBC’s chief executive officer Georges Elhedery said not enough executives were fully accountable for…
Instagram’s Favorite New Yorker Cartoons in 2025
What’s in a like? That which we call a heart by any other name would be a retweet. (I am so sorry, mostly to my college Shakespeare professor, but really to everyone reading this.) On…
Airbus CEO concedes likely defeat to Boeing in order race this year
The planemaker remains ahead of its US rival in deliveries and the pipeline of outstanding orders Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury conceded likely defeat in the annual order race against Boeing…
SGX’s November securities turnover value up 18%, driven by index stocks and Reits
The trading value and volume of securities on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) rose in November, driven by interest in index stocks and real estate investment trusts (Reits). The bourse…
Coupang CEO resigns over historic South Korean data breach
Coupang chief executive officer Park Dae-jun resigned over his failure to prevent South Korea’s largest-ever data breach, which set off a regulatory and political backlash against the…
Singapore stocks close flat ahead of Fed interest rate decision
Singapore stocks ended lower on Wednesday (Dec 10), ahead of a policy decision by the US Federal Reserve. The benchmark Straits Times Index (STI) was flat, shedding 1.34 points to close at…
HSBC set to pay about US$300 million to settle French criminal case
The full agreement would cover the fine to end the PNF case as well as the tax bill HSBC Holdings is poised to pay around US$300 million to settle a French criminal case into its alleged…
Asian utilities slow to confront climate risk
ASIA might need to grow up when it comes to protecting its power sector against climate-related loss and damage, a new report has suggested. Eleven major power-sector players in Asia are…
Nvidia builds location verification tech that could help fight chip smuggling
Nvidia has built location verification technology that could indicate which country its chips are operating in, according to sources familiar with the matter, a move that could help…
E-commerce firm Meesho notches US$8.8 billion valuation in blockbuster India debut
The country’s IPO fundraising in 2025 is expected to surpass last year’s record US$20.5 billion Shares of e-commerce firm Meesho jumped about 58 per cent in their debut on Wednesday (Dec…
Amazon announces US$35 billion investment in India
Major US tech firms have poured billions of US dollars into the country this year Amazon plans to invest more than US$35 billion in India by 2030 to expand operations and strengthen its…
Asian stocks in retreat as traders eye Fed decision, tech earnings
ASIAN markets retreated on Wednesday following a tepid day on Wall Street as investors bided their time ahead of a highly anticipated Federal Reserve policy announcement later in the day.…
Gold edges lower as dollar climbs to near one-week high ahead of Fed verdict
Gold inched lower on Wednesday (Dec 10), as the dollar rose after a US jobs report indicated a stronger-than-expected labour market, pressuring prices, ahead of a widely anticipated rate…
IndiGo crisis shows perils of India’s corporate dominance
The domination of the country’s two airlines is a far cry from a decade ago, when more than nine players shared the market Flight chaos triggered by India’s biggest airline IndiGo in the…
Trump says National Guard member who survived shooting 'got up from bed'
President Trump said Tuesday that Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, the National Guard member who survived last month's ambush attack in the District of Columbia, got up from bed. Source link